Chapter 22: The Lonely Barracks

Cao Shan didn't sleep well after the whole day, because tomorrow was the day to get the medicine, and he was secretly worried that he had been tossing and turning all night. Cao Shan, who had been tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, didn't close his eyes until dawn, but he was soon awakened by a few knocks on the door. "Who? What's the matter so early? Cao Shan lifted the quilt and jumped out of bed barefoot, while speaking, his right hand pulled out the pistol from under the pillow.

Cao Shan spoke, but the knock outside the door also stopped, and the barefoot Cao Shan quietly moved behind the door, and the whole person was pasted on the door panel, but he didn't hear any movement. Cao Shan froze slightly, then remembered the situation when the man had sent the cloth bag a few days ago, so he immediately opened the latch of the door and pulled the door open from the inside. Sure enough, there was no one outside the door, Cao Shan only saw a small box on the ground, and when he opened the box, there was a key and a note inside.

Cao Shan turned around and closed the door and called the note, only to find that there was only one address written on the note. With the key and the address, Cao Shan's heart began to beat violently. Holding back the excitement in his heart, Cao Shan, who was no longer sleepy, sat on the bed stupidly, and waited for the street outside to be lively, and then left the residence with black circles under his eyes. "What's wrong with you? Why is your complexion so bad? Seeing Cao Shan again, Lin Mo was startled by the guy in front of him with unkempt hair and dark circles.

"Don't mention it, that man came again last night!" The place where I met Lin Mo was still the breakfast stall, but this time, the two were sitting indoors. took out the key and the note from the pocket of his underwear, and quietly handed it to Lin Mo, Cao Shan was able to relax. "The man gave a new address, and a key, the previous address may have tested us, but fortunately you didn't send someone to investigate in advance!"

After getting the key and the new address, Lin Mo's heart was a little surprised, he didn't expect that the elusive person to have such thoughts. "I've already told the others that since he's only contacted you twice, your only task at the moment is to keep in touch with this mysterious man." Lin Mo's words made Cao Shan slightly stunned, the other comrades Lin Mo was talking about at the moment should be other high-level members of the underground party organization in Shanghai.

"We still don't know the specific identity and origin of the other party, so you must not take it lightly, and everything must be based on safety." Lin Mo lowered his head and drank porridge, and at the same time told Cao Shan to pay attention to his own safety. "For now, the other party should have no ill will towards us, and if the drug is true, we feel that we should actively fight for the other party. If the other party has the intention of contacting us, you must report it in time, so that we can be ready to contact the other party. ”

Lin Mo gave a face-to-face lecture, and then left in advance, and Cao Shan also left later. After Lin Mo and Cao Shan separated, they did not rush to the contact point immediately, but went home first, and after explaining to their families, they rushed to their bookstore as usual. With the key and address, Lin Mo did not immediately take someone over to find out, but first sent a traffic officer to determine the authenticity of the address, and after learning that the address really existed, Lin Mo led someone over.

Lin Mo was very thoughtful, and the few underground party members who followed him over were all disguised as moving workers. Seeing the movers carrying large bags and small boxes, the other residents in the apartment building didn't feel strange, at least Lin Mo didn't notice that someone was secretly staring at him. In the room at the end of the corridor on the third floor, Lin Mo took out the key to open the door, and what caught his eye was the sundries and boxes that filled almost the entire living room.

Seeing these boxes, Lin Mo's heart that had been hanging fell to the ground in an instant, and it seemed that the mysterious person really had no malicious intent. "Hurry up and move it, move it all back and take a closer look." Seeing that someone was already ready to open the box to check, Lin Mo spoke out in time to stop it, now is not the time to delay time, after all, this is an apartment building, and there are all kinds of residents. Tang Cheng moved these things back and forth more than a dozen times by himself, and Lin Mo and the others only went up and down a few times, and then they all moved away.

In less than an hour, Lin Mo emptied all the boxes in the apartment and confirmed that the oiled paper bags on the table contained sulfonamide powder, and Lin Mo personally carried these sulfonamide powder downstairs. When Lin Mo took people to the apartment building to move things, Tang Cheng had already rushed to Hans's restaurant, and here in Hans, Tang Cheng still had a batch of medicines temporarily stored here. "Tang, let it go first during the period of the pharmacy, you promised me last night, and you will tell me today the purpose of your coming to Shanghai."

Hans hadn't forgotten what Tang Cheng had said last night, so as soon as the two met, Hans mentioned it. Tang Cheng, who was bending down to open the drawer to look for a cigar, did not answer immediately when he heard this, but lit the cigar and smoked a few puffs before laughing at Hans's glare. "Look at your cutout! Didn't I smoke a cigar from you? This painful look on your face, I don't know what I think I did to you! ”

The angry Hans grabbed the ashtray on the table and made a gesture to fight, and Tang Cheng stopped making fun of Hans. "Do you know the Lone Barracks?" Tang Cheng's expression became serious as these words came out, "The main purpose of my coming to Shanghai is to come to the lonely military camp, the British are afraid of the Japanese, and the lonely military camp may change in the future, I want to take them out of Shanghai." Hans's expression also stiffened because of Tang Cheng's words, he thought of all the possibilities, but he didn't expect Tang Cheng to come to the lonely military camp.

After the Battle of Songhu, as long as they were Shanghainese, no one did not know about the lonely military camp. According to the four lines of warehouse to resist the enemy for four days and nights, the so-called 800 warriors led by Xie Jinyuan finally retreated into the concession with only more than 300 people. After the lone army battalion withdrew into the concession, all the weapons and equipment were handed over, but the British, who were worried about the Japanese army, suddenly turned their faces, not only ignored the repeated requests of the people, but also sent the White Russian armed group of the international merchant group to confine the lone army camp in Jiaozhou Park in the British concession.

Although the lone army camp seems to be safe at the moment, Tang Cheng knows that the British will keep the lone army camp in the British concession until the Japanese army fully occupies the Shanghai concession and the lone army camp is also controlled by the Japanese army. Although the Lone Army Battalion is not counted as the unit with the best record in the Anti-Japanese War, Tang Cheng believes that the remaining officers and soldiers of the Lone Army Camp can be regarded as anti-Japanese fighters who do not care about life and death. Knowing that the lonely military camp did not end well, Tang Cheng, who was in Shanghai, naturally had to do something, otherwise it would be a trip to Shanghai for nothing.

Tang Cheng said that the lonely military camp was the main purpose of his visit to Shanghai this time, and this was naturally used to coax Hans, but if Hans was willing to help, Tang Cheng was really willing to send the remaining officers and soldiers of the lonely military camp out of Shanghai safely. Hans, who was half-convinced, looked at Tang Cheng, but he couldn't see anything strange from Tang Cheng's expression, and after half a sound, Hans sighed heavily. "Tang, you are too crazy, the British have sealed off Jiaozhou Park very tightly, you can't get more than 300 people in the lone camp out of Shanghai."

Tang Cheng heard the hesitation in Hans's words, and secretly said to himself that there was a door, and shook the index finger of Hans's right hand a few times. "Hans, there are some seemingly impossible things, it's not that they can't be done, it's just up to someone to dare to do it. You know me, and I never do what I'm not sure about. But when I do, the results are often unexpected! For example, the things I did in Hongkou District last year, before me, who dared to enter Hongkou District alone like me? ”

Tang Cheng's reminder made Hans's expression stiffen, and Hans was one of the people who knew about what happened in Hongkou District last year. "However, the lonely camp is different, Don, you have to understand..."Hans tried to persuade Tang Cheng not to be emotional, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Tang Cheng.

"Hans, you have lived in Shanghai for many years, and it seems that you still don't know us Chinese! There are only more than 300 people left in the lone camp, and these people are heroes, and if they are heroes, they should not be locked in barbed wire like prisoners. Yes, there are more than 300 of them, and it is indeed very difficult to transfer more than 300 people from Shanghai, but as long as one of them can leave Shanghai alive, it will be a victory! It is the victory of the indomitable will of the Chinese! ”

Tang Cheng's voice grew louder and louder, and when he said the last two words, it was so loud that Hans's ears were buzzing. Seeing that Hans was already speechless, Tang Cheng eased up, "Hans, all the medicines last night belong to you, but I hope that you, as an American, will gather a group of doctors and cooperate with the Chinese condolence groups in the concession to go to the lonely military camp in Jiaozhou Park to give necessary treatment to those injured officers and soldiers." ”

"I know there are quite a few American merchant ships on the docks, and you have a way to contact them, two people with a gold bar, this is the price I gave. As long as you contact the American merchant ships on the docks to help transport the people from the lonely barracks out of Shanghai, 200 gold bars, this is my bottom line. Tang Cheng made a bloody investment this time, because he knew that the more he pretended to be businesslike, the less Hans would continue to doubt his purpose in Shanghai.

As the so-called money is moving, 200 gold bars is not a small amount, and Hans was really distracted by the price given by Tang Cheng. "Don, you know, if this matter is known to the British, I will be in trouble in the concession." The reason Hans could think of was just an excuse for the other party to try to increase the price, but he didn't care about it. Because it was the British who controlled Jiaozhou Park, and Hans was just a German in the guise of an American, and the British were the ones behind the most ruthless suppression of Germany after World War I.

"Hans, this is the best chance to slap the British in the face, are you going to miss this good opportunity? What's more, the specific actions are all done by me, and you just help me contact the doctor and the ship. I should rest assured that I will do things, and I will never implicate you afterwards, and the British will only focus on the national **. Tang Cheng laughed heartily, and he was sure that Hans would not let go of this opportunity to torment the British.